Matthieu Godme-Guillaume Champagne Extra Brut 1er Cru V.V.V NV web-unpublished Alejandro Fernandez — the man

Alejandro Fernandez — the man widely credited with dragging Ribera del Duero into the modern era — bought this estate near Roa in 1987 as the family's dedicated second home for Tempranillo

This is then blended with a more traditional European cask aged Macallan

It is full-bodied and deep but

Unwooded Chardonnay from a farm where the limestone came from termites: millions of years ago their colonies built nests across the Robertson Valley

Matthieu Godme-Guillaume Champagne Extra Brut 1er Cru V.V.V NV web-unpublished Alejandro Fernandez — the manThree villages, three letters, one very good bottle of Champagne. Matthieu Godme Guillaume took over his family's domaine in Verzenay in 2019, the third generation on the Montagne de Reims, and V. V. V. stands for the trio of villages behind the blend: Verzenay, Verzy and Villers Marmery. It leans Chardonnay, roughly three quarters, with Pinot Noir filling in, all organically farmed, mostly from mature vines in their thirties and forties. Native